Example sentences of "[noun sg] i arrive at " in BNC.

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1 Next evening I arrived at the cottage with the rucksack half-full of tinned food , bully beef , steak and kidney and , of course , the tinned plum duff ; chocolate ( the hard stuff from the 48-hour ration pack , but still very tasty ) ; tobacco and some cigarettes — in all , quite a collection of foodstuffs .
2 Come the day I arrived at Docklands TV at 5.30 pm and went to man the phones till Deborah arrived .
3 ‘ And then there was the day I arrived at your home , ’ Adam went on relentlessly .
4 One January morning I arrived at work late .
5 After a few minutes ' walk I arrived at the edge of the wooded area ; in front of me was about two hundred yards of grass , rising to the high ground covered by thick gorse and ferns .
6 By the time I arrived at B.P. there was need for many more of those whom Peter Calvocoressi calls the Indians , and the net had been cast wider to trawl the less élite from universities other than Oxford and Cambridge .
7 Well er by the time I arrived at the doorway to the room erm a male person was lying on the floor , spreadeagled er and my job would have been to cover him with the shot gun er to enable P C to go forward and handcuff the chap .
8 The solution I arrived at was to go around ‘ wired ’ with a micro tape recorder in my pocket .
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